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Sin City tourism and data center discourse
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This morning, we continue our conversation with Yvette Fernandez, a reporter for the Mountain West News Bureau and Nevada Public Radio, about some of the biggest economic news stories coming out of the state. In this episode, we hear how tariffs and immigration enforcement are hampering Las Vegas' tourism rebound and how Nevada is trying to establish guardrails for AI data centers. But first, what's behind this latest surge in bond yields? Every story has an economic angle. Want some in your inbox? Subscribe to our daily or weekly newsletter. Marketplace Morning Report...
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What's behind the latest spike in bond yields and a check-in on the Vegas economy? From Marketplace in Washington, I'm Kimberly Adams. We saw another round of spikes in Treasury bond yields this morning as markets reacted to new, stronger-than-expected manufacturing data and comments from multiple Federal Reserve
governors that more interest rate hikes are likely needed to help cool inflation. I asked Diane Swank, chief economist at the audit tax and advisory firm KPMG, for more details on what's behind this latest surge in yields. What we're seeing is the return of what most people call the bond vigilantes.
And what that means is we've got a flood of debt hitting the overall financial markets at a time when investors are now requiring compensation for not only inflation, but for lending longer terms a period of time. idea that they might not get repaid back on that debt at some point in time. It's called
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